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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 8 April 1927, Page 1

THE EDUCATION BOARD OP THE DISTRICT OP CANTERBURY. ELECTION OP SCHOOL COMMITTEES. 'JHIE BOARD, in pursuance of the power conferred by the “Education Act, 1914,” hereby directs that a PUBLIC MEETING OF HOUSEHOLDERS he held in each SCHOOL DISTRICT in the Canterbury Education District on MONDAY, May 2nd, at Half-past Seven o’clock in the evening, for the Election of a School Committee for each District. Where the Yearly Average Attendance at the School or Schools in the School District for the year ending December 31st, 1926, has not exceeded One Hundred Children, the number of Members of the School Committee shall be FIVE; where such attendance is over One Hundred and not over Two Hundred, the number of Members shall be SEVEN; and where such attendance is over Two Hundred, the number of Members shall be NINE. The Place of Meeting shall be the School in each District, and this is understood to mean the Main School in any District which has more than one School. The Board further directs that the First Meeting of each School Committee be held in the place appointed' for the Election and immediately after the Election.

The Board further calls upon the Householders in each District to SEND IN to the Chairman of the School Committee (or the Commissioner, as the case may be), in writing on or before MONDAY, 25th April, not later than 8 p.m., the NAMES OF PERSONS, being householders, NOMINATED by them to serve upon the Committee. Such nominations must be signed by the Proposer and by the Candidate, and must be in the form set forth in the Third Schedule to the Act, or to ! the effect thereof. In addition to such ( nominations, in School Districts in which the average attendance for the year 1926 did NOT exceed 240, any Householder present at the Annual Meeting may nominate any Householder who consents by word of; mouth or in writing to be nominated. 1 (In the case of School Districts in which the average attendance for the year 1926 exceeded 240, the Act does NOT provide for the acceptance of verbal nominations.) t Under the provisions of the Education Amendment Act, 1919, a parent or guardian who has a child attending the School is now eligible for election on the Committee, irrespective of his place of residence. j CHAS. KIRK, ( Secretary. | Education Office, Christchurch, March 31st, 1927.

* TL'IARU HARBOUR BOARD. PUBLIC NOTICE. Under “The Local Government Loans Board Act, 19 2(1.” VTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that ' the Timaru Harbour Board will 1 in accordance with the requirements of the above Act consider at its next monthly meeting to be held on Friday, the 22nd day of Apriil, 1927, at the hour of 11 a.m. a motion to apply to the Local Government Loans Board for sanction to borrow the sum of £200,000 i.e., (1) £IOO,OOO to cover the cost of certain harbour improvements to the Timaru Harbour and (2) £IO,OOO for the building up and repairs to the Eastern Extension Works. AND NOTICE is hereby further given that all objections to such motion and applications must be lodged with the Timaru Harbour Board before 11 a.m. on Friday, the 22nd day of April, 19 27, in order that any such objections may be j considered with the motion. DATED this 7th day of April, 1927. C. G. WIGHTMAN, Secretary, Timaru Harbour Board.

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